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Little known fact, there was a shooting war between Ohio and Michigan in the early 19th century. Ohio won some 159 square miles from Michigan and Congress gave Michigan the Upper Peninsula rightfully owned by Wisconsin to placate the Wolverines. Michigan traded up! Collusion?
I didn't know we got the UP out of that....all we had to do was get there..Straits of Mackinac were treacherous waters for small craft. As a kid we got there on the big car ferries and later they built the Big Mac bridge. To this day my sister is terrified of that bridge...I'd drive back and forth across it all day if I got back up there and had the time. So Michigan got Copper Harbor, all that iron ore, and fishing rights to Lake Superior? I'd say we made out pretty good on that deal. Wisconsin had to be like "WTF?" Definite collusion...no doubt about it. Michigan and Ohio are so innerbred now that it's nowhere near the rivalry it once was, but sparks fly when BLUE plays the Buckeyes...it's always the last game of the season.